Sentence examples for premise of everything from inspiring English sources

"We're the richest state in the country, and the premise of everything the governor is doing is that we can't afford to take care of our people," Mr. Livingston said.

The official, Michael Chertoff, chief of the criminal division, said "the premise of everything we have done in the struggle against terrorism has been to operate within the Constitution even as we adapt to the new circumstances and the new priorities".

It's kind of a feedback loop and once you set up the premise of the story, everything sort of follows.

The premise is to rid oneself of everything material and mortal aided by powerful symbols: the black cloak the dervish wears represents a grave, the towering headdress their tombstones, the white dress their shrouds, and by removing the black cloak (before the ceremony) a Dervish renounces the worldly temptations.

"But I was looking for an old form, hence the quilt to challenge the premise of the course that everything had to be avant-garde, new, totally unheard of," she said.

Polymathism is an idea that I'm pretty committed to (after all, I've started two businesses — iFixit and Dozuki — based on the premise of teaching pretty much everything to as many people as possible, whether it's via work instructions or product manuals).

Linda Urban's new novel, "The Center of Everything," uses the premise of a grandparent's death in a surprising way, exploring not only grief but also its occasional companions, anxiety and guilt.

The premise of "The Pitts" is that everything happens to the title characters.

I think that the premise of the show is that everything is misunderstood in some way, and that there is great virtue in coming to a subject late.

The premise of the production is that everything is set in 19th Century Teatro alla Scala.

Theophrastus also developed a theory of inferences involving premises of the form "α is universally predicated of everything of which γ is universally predicated" and of related forms.